Commonwealth v. Avery

These are three indictments under G. L. (Ter. Ed.) c. 268, § 8, charging the defendant with accepting bribes while he was a member of the board of selectmen of Braintree.

The material part of said § 8 reads as follows: “A legislative, executive, judicial, county or municipal officer who corruptly requests or accepts a gift or gratuity or a promise to make a gift or to do an act beneficial to him, under an agreement or with an understanding that his vote, opinion or judgment shall be given in any particular manner, or upon a particular side of any question, cause or proceeding, which is or may…